Mimara Museum [One of the Largest Private Art Collections]Vladimir Mitic2018-11-28T21:51:22+01:00

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Mimara Museum – One of the Worlds Largest Private Art Collections

Mimara Museum houses 3750 works of art donated by Ante Topić Mimara. The collection contains art from French Impressionists to ancient pottery and Chinese jade. You can marvel at paintings of Goya, Velazquez, Rubens, Van Dyck, Botticelli, El Greco, Renoir, Raphael, Titian and many others.

TIP: ZAGREB MIMARA MUSEUM HOLDS ONE OF THE LARGEST PRIVATE ART COLLECTIONS IN THE WORLD. SOME CLAIM THAT THE VAST NUMBER OF ARTWORK IS FAKE, BUT NO ONE HAS PROVEN IT YET!

The artworks span an amazing three millennia of history. You will discover works of art of different cultures and civilizations!

Paintings of famed masters of various school such as Raphael, Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya and many more. Sculptures and archaeological rarities which date back to ancient Greece and Egypt.

The glass collection showcases works from ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire. All the way to familiar Venetian and other European workshops.

The Far Eastern collection contains items of rare materials such as jade, lacquer and rhinoceros horn.

The Mimara Museum is actually called the “Art Collection of Ante and Wiltrud Topić Mimara”. It opened to the public in 1987, a thirty-year-old tradition.

It is located in a former school, a neo-Renaissance palace from the end of the 19th century. By the Croatia National Theatre.

Mimara Museum Collection

The old civilizations collection

Drawings, graphics and illumination collection

European sculpture collection

Ivory collection

Metal collection

Ceramics and porcelain collection

The glass collection

Furniture collection

Textiles and carpets collection

The Far Eastern collection

Icon collection

Flemish paintings

Spanish paintings

French paintings

Italian paintings

English paintings

Dutch paintings

German, Austrian and Swiss paintings

Mimara Museum, a museum of fakes, or is it?

Several art critics claimed that the Mimara collection is full of fakes. At the same time, Mimara Museum is opened to all for research. What is important to realize, that none of these experts came to prove it.

In fact, if all these accusations were true, would so many renowned museums cooperate with the Mimara Museum? We let you decide.

Ante Topić Mimara – a controversial and mysterious collector

The Ante and Wiltrude Topić Mimara collection has been a subject of controversy and accused it was full of fakes. Ante Topić Mimara always responded to prove those accusations, but no one ever did!

For example, he sold the Bury St. Edmund’s Cross to the Metropolitan Museum for a sum of 600000 dollars!

It is also rumoured that he acquired artworks confiscated from Jews fleeing Hitler’s Germany, which he denied.

After WWII he was working for the Yugoslav Government at a WWII art collection point. Again, some claim that he has stolen many of the items in his art collection.

Nothing has been proven so far!

What can you see and do at the Mimara Museum?

You can have this museum almost to yourselves. Take your time and marvel at paintings of numerous European masters and painters.

In the first place, enjoy artwork which spans an amazing three millennia of history and every genre imaginable!

Of course, we cannot say if there are fakes or not, but it is still amazing art!